F17 in VMware Fusion: Fresh Install from Fedora 17 Live ISO to a VMWare Fusion Virtual Fedora-64-bit Machine on a MacBook Pro

This went surprisingly well, and I was up and running with most things (not sound-generating things) working in half an afternoon. Roughly:

• Download Fedora 17 Live ISO image
• Create, in VMWare Fusion, a Fedora-64-bit ``custom'' virtual machine, taking all defaults (1GB mem, 20GB-max disk)
• Set the virtual DVD/CD-ROM to the ISO image file just downloaded
• Boot the virtual machine and install Fedora as usual from its virtual DVD
• Disconnect the Fedora DVD and mount the vmware-tools ISO image in its place
• Copy the vmware-tools .tgz file from ISO image to disk, unpack, and follow instructions. In particular,
  • Install gcc, make, kernel-devel, and perl.
  • Run vmware-install.pl (taking the defaults for the most part).
  • File sharing and fast networking failed to compile for me, but I don't notice any problems besides file sharing not working (nothing in /mnt/hgfs).
  • Basically same as http://minhtech.com/linux/fedora-linux-13-install-vmware-tools/

It took me a while to figure out that the VMWare default directory for is now  /Documents/Virtual Machines.localized. In the Virtual Machines Library view, you can select ``Show in Finder'' in the right-click menu. I find it amazing that VMware hackers would allow a space in a default filename.